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Facebook App for Android Launched

By: , IntoMobile
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 at 2:24 PM

Wow, that took long enough. There were rumblings awhile back that a Facebook app for Android was in the works, and I think we’re all glad those rumours finally panned out. The app comes with a home screen widget, contact live folder, custom notifications, photo uploading through the camera, gallery, and browser, and all of the poking, wall-posting and item-liking that you can shake a stick at. I’m playing with the app a little bit on the G1 now, and I’m finding some definite setbacks that need to be addressed. For one, you can’t do a straight-up friend lookup from within the app, even from the Find key – you can only click through on links from your news feed or pull up phone numbers from the live folder. Secondly, opening pictures launches the browser, rather than pulling the pictures into the app itself. Yeah, you can click-to-call or -email, but by the looks of things, we’ll need a few patches to bring the app properly up to speed. Shaking the phone to update the friend feed is kind of neat, in any case. Facebook for Android is available now in the Market – go ahead and get downloading! For more info, check out the Facebook page.

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Simon Sage

Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.

  • Clarissa

    I find the call/email function annoying. I wanted to do a simple copy/paste from FB info page to my contacts and it just couldn’t be done! Every time I ended up having to cancel a call I didn’t want to make or an email I didn’t want to send. Irritating.